Louise Dickson and Lindsay Kines report: In the wake of a privacy breach at the B.C. Pension Corporation, B.C.’s privacy commissioner is once again calling on the provincial government to compel public and private bodies to report privacy breaches to his office within days of discovery. Michael McEvoy said the case clearly demonstrates why B.C….
Category: Commentaries and Analyses
Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Rips Into Equifax Over Its Massive 2017 Data Breach.
So the Congressional report on Equifax’s massive 2017 databreach was released. The title gives you a clue as to what you can expect to read in it: HOW EQUIFAX NEGLECTED CYBERSECURITY AND SUFFERED A DEVASTATING DATA BREACH STAFF REPORT PERMANENT SUBCOMMITTEE ON INVESTIGATIONS UNITED STATES SENATE The report is 71 pages, and the following is…
CT-GAN: Malicious Tampering of 3D Medical Imagery using Deep Learning
The following is the abstract of a research report that I saw at https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.03597. CT-GAN: Malicious Tampering of 3D Medical Imagery using Deep Learning Yisroel Mirsky, Tom Mahler, Ilan Shelef, and Yuval Elovici (Submitted on 11 Jan 2019 (v1), last revised 3 Apr 2019 (this version, v2)) In 2018, clinics and hospitals were hit with…
The Anatomy of an FTC Data Security Lawsuit
Anne Bolamperti and Patrick X. Fowler of Snell & Wilmer write: The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) has described itself as “Your cop on the privacy beat” and a top federal regulator of consumer-facing data security practices. An example of how the FTC asserts itself when it comes to data security and privacy associated with Internet…
Is a third-party incident about to fuel a health insurance fraud ring?
Despite the fact that we are constantly bombarded with reports of breaches, there are even more breaches that seem to escape media coverage. I’ve been wondering about whether something I noticed recently might be something that will be used to fuel an insurance fraud operation. My curiosity was triggered when I read a notification from…
FTC says it only has 40 employees overseeing privacy and data security
Harper Neidig reports: The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Wednesday told Congress that it only has 40 full-time employees dedicated to overseeing internet privacy and data security and requested lawmakers give the agency more resources to adequately police tech companies. FTC Chairman Joseph Simons, a Republican appointed by President Trump, wrote in a letter to…